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WASHINGTON — Two powerful House Democrats on Monday demanded documents from Biogen about the approval process, marketing, and pricing of its controversial new Alzheimer’s drug.

The letter is the latest move in a congressional investigation into Aduhelm’s approval and pricing spearheaded by House Committee on Oversight and Reform Chair Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) and Energy and Commerce Chair Frank Pallone (D-N.J.). The request prominently references a STAT investigation that revealed Biogen had an off-the-books meeting with a prominent FDA regulator ahead of the drug’s unprecedented approval, and that the back-channel relationship between the two started earlier and was far more extensive than disclosed.

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